Needham Public Schools Superintendent's Blog

Today, on a chilly December morning in the midst of a season of lights, joy, and anticipation, we paused as a nation to commemorate a tra...

The Needham Education Foundation (NEF) recently held a symposium entitled Flipped Classrooms and Broken Silos:  Education Trends in Needham...

It was definitely a trick, especially so early in the school year.  After all, there is a reason we call them “snow days.”  But given the ...

We have enjoyed a great start to the 2012-13 school year in Needham.  Just before teachers headed back to class to greet eager learners, we ...

Auditorium (more Pictures below!) After years of monitoring, testing, planning, moving, and construction, the Newman...

One of my summer reads includes Harvard professor Tony Wagner’s Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change The W...

As the school year concludes, allow me to share my June 4 th remarks to the Needham High School graduating Class of 2012.   Here’s ho...